Word: mink
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...matching shawls-that put new life into quilting bees and earned for Adolfo a Coty Award. Last week he presented his fall collection: jeweled vests with fringe to the floor, blown-up fur berets and scarves, including everyday kerchiefs, monogrammed boas and a nine-foot muffler of patchwork mink...
PRECIOUS MOMENTS has the speed and stable is cracking down--two winners yesterday, BUCKY'S MINK was fourth against classier at 63-1, FLOW LIKE WINE show good works...
...engine that he souped up himself. When his cars or his job preoccupy him so much that Grace complains, he told TIME Miami Bureau Chief Joseph Kane, he may react by saying: "I want you to be happy. Here is some money. Go buy yourself a mink stole or something...
...minimum of pomp. Lehman was awarding 1,281 baccalaureates, many of them to children of families only one or two generations in the U.S. Quietly, pridefully, parents and relatives took their places on folding chairs on the broad lawn, while a Berlioz march thundered from loudspeakers. Some women wore mink stoles; others were in frantically color-splashed pants suits. Folded Yiddish newspapers protruded from the pockets of some of the men. While President Leonard Lief conferred the degrees, jet planes from Kennedy Airport soared overhead; the roar of traffic and elevated trains, punctuated occasionally by the shriek of sirens, filtered...
Some 5,000 pelts are now ready to go before the auctioneer in New York. While conventional mink skins average about $35 apiece, fur experts figure that the new pelts will sell for as much as $2,000 each. This means that the first mable coats, made up of some 50 skins, will cost $150,000 or more. Piampiano hopes that his partners will produce 35,000 pelts in 1970 and eventually reach 100,000 pelts annually-hardly a dent in the 7,000,000 mink skins on the U.S. market last year, but enough to bring the price...